Can you tell I’m slightly OBSESSED? There are so many delicious ways to enjoy fresh peaches, and you just can’t go wrong with this amazing, warm and flavorful peach crisp!

Also, if the thought of peeling and slicing a bunch of peaches seems like too much work, read on for the best trick to easily peel peaches.

How to easily peel peaches:

My favorite fool-proof trick for removing the skin from peaches is to place 2-3 peaches at a time into a pot of boiling water. Leave them in the water for about 30 seconds, and then remove them to an ice-water bath. The ice water bath will shock them and keep the peach flesh from cooking, but the peach skin will be so easy to peel that you wont even need a knife!

Know that your peaches are peeled to perfection, let’s make the best peach crisp you’ve ever had!

How to make peach crisp:

Start by slicing your peaches into about 3/4” thick slices and placing the peaches in a colander, resting over a bowl. Then, add sugar to the sliced peaches, stir gently, and let them rest for about 20 minutes to allow the sugar to pull some of the juices from the fresh peaches. You should end up with at least 1/4 cup of peach juice.

After reserving some of the peach juice, add flour, lemon juice, vanilla, salt, and cinnamon to the juice, and pour the mixture over the fresh peaches, tossing to gently coat them.

Pour the peaches into a baking dish and sprinkle the crumb topping over them.

Bake the peach crisp until the topping is golden brown. Serve warm, with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

How can you tell if a peach is ripe?

Gently squeeze the peach with your fingers. If they are slightly soft to the touch and if they have a nice “peachy smell”, then the peach is close to being ready to eat. Also look at the color of the peach. You want to see the soft, golden yellow, background color of the peach rather than the strong beautiful red color. Finally, look for sign of ripeness in the skin. As the skin starts to wrinkle around the stem, you’ll know it’s ready to eat!

How to soften hard peaches:

One popular way to help ripen a peach is to use a brown paper bag. Place your peaches in a paper bag and leave them at room temperature for about 1 day or until desired ripeness is achieved. If you want them to ripen even faster, try putting a banana in the bag as well! Don’t however use plastic bag, as it will cause the ripening process to happen to quickly.

This was really good. I didn’t bother to peel the peaches and still turned out great. Don’t even notice the skins once it’s all cooked anyway. Love the nutmeg which makes it a little different than other peach crisps/cobblers that I’ve made.

This was delicious! The lemon juice really helped the peaches keep their gorgeous colour and the filling wasn’t too liquidy with the flour slurry. I have made a few peach crisps and they have all been disappointing. This recipe? It’s a keeper.

Holy. CRAP. This was SO FREAKING GOOD. My boyfriend is picky about peach crumbles/cobblers; the peaches can’t be too crunchy nor too soggy. The peaches in this recipe turned out just right. We both fell in love with it and I think it’s going to be a dessert staple this fall. YUM!